The Yale Center for Civic Thought is dedicated to encouraging thoughtful public discourse and civically responsible intellectual life in a rising generation of students, faculty, citizens, and leaders.
The Center works at three levels of community: on Yale’s campus, in New Haven, and nationally.
The Center encourages participants in its activities to
- Engage thoughtfully with the history of political thought and American political traditions
- Explore challenges that constitutional democracies have faced in previous eras
- Analyze how government and society function today
- Deliberate together across lines of deep disagreement
Our approach to civic education prioritizes small, rigorous conversations, rooted in place, deepened by reading, and linked to practical expertise.
